October 11, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World when your father says so and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young as father. A half
hour visit with your neighbor's the Andersons, brought to you
by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always
good to the last drop. It's morning in Springfield, the
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morning of June twenty first, and a day long to
be remembered in the minds and memories of the family
known as Anderson. As with most things that occur in
the white frame house on Maple Street, the situation is
approached by way of Hindustan and the East Side, Bury
and Archipelago, but in the Anderson household, June twenty first
will always be remembered as the day we taught mother
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to drive like this.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Good morning, Margaret, Good morning, dear.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Why did you look chipper this morning?
Speaker 7 (01:17):
Why shouldn't I? I'm young, handsome, talented, and you you
lucky woman. You've got me.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Jim Anderson, did you put something in your mouthwash today?
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Nothing can phaze me.
Speaker 8 (01:30):
I'll climb out, swim oceans, scale the sides of mighty precipices.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Jim, please put me down, trying to say pre gm Jim,
You've got to put me.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
Down, will not?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
That's coming?
Speaker 8 (01:43):
Well, let him get his own women, honey, you know
how you can get down?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Oh, dear, you're going to be a spoiled baby.
Speaker 9 (01:53):
Hi a mom, Hi a daan kissing mom hadm Well,
you sure got a nice day.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
For it, Margaret, Yes, dear, Now please have my coffee.
Of course, you keep quiet and eat your breakfast.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Not what did I do?
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Nothing? Just eat your breakfast.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
There you are, dear, nice hot coffee.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
The girls have to be down any minute. I better
get started with the egg.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Okay, honey, you sure got a nice day for it.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Dead But I just finished telling you.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
But I have to ask you something.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
If it's about a gasoline scooter, the answer is still no.
Speaker 9 (02:38):
Well, it isn't exactly about a gasoline scooter.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
It's about highway safety.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Oh what about it?
Speaker 9 (02:45):
Well, if you have to talk about it or anything,
what's a good thing to say?
Speaker 8 (02:50):
Well, there are all sorts of things to be said
about the Highway Safety program. It outlines a common sense
method of preventing accidents and saving lives.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
It promotes.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
Why are you suddenly interested in the highway safety movement?
Why not that I have any objections? Of course, I
think it's a very good idea. I just want to
know why. Well, they're having a sort of a contest,
sort of about highway safety.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
You have to write three hundred words on what highway
safety means to me in my community.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
And if you will, you get a prize.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
You are going to write three hundred words without a
gun at the back of your head.
Speaker 9 (03:28):
Well, I mean, highway safety is something everybody's in favor of,
and like you said, it helps to save lives and
make the road safe for democracy.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
And but what's the prize?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
The prize?
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Why are they giving away a gasoline scooter?
Speaker 9 (03:49):
I see, But I wasn't even thinking about.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
That, Dan, I'll bet you weren't.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
I was thinking of the good I can do for
my fellow citizens and the prosperity, sterity you bit.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
And if I can do things like that, well, gosh.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Please pass the cream and sugar.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
I'd sort of be killing two birds with one gasoline scooter.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
That's what I'm afraid of now, man, Please have the
cream and sugar, Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
Good morning, mother, Good morning father.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Hi, good morning, hid.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Drink your orange juice, Betty. I'll have some scrambled eggs
ready in a minute. Okay, shove over, Bud.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Why can't you sit on the other side?
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Go ahead, Bud, move over and stop arguing.
Speaker 10 (04:31):
What a day?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
What's the matter with you this morning?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (04:35):
That Janie Liggett.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
What a friend she turned out to be.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
Yesterday I sat over there and she still made me
shove over.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
What's the matter with Janieliggott?
Speaker 11 (04:46):
You can't count on her for anything. We were gonna
wash our hair together today and she can't do it
just because her aunt's in town.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
What an excuse.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
It's no oneder my pants wear out. All I do
is shove over.
Speaker 11 (05:05):
Now, I've got nothing to do all day, but absolutely nothing.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
Well, suppose you pass the toast. That'll take up some
of your loose times.
Speaker 10 (05:14):
Father, It isn't funny.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Here's the toast.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 11 (05:19):
How would you like to have a day staring you
in the face and have absolutely nothing to do?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Heck, it's only about two pages.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
What is three hundred words? I figured it out. Oh
we're back on that again.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Fury everybody. Golliam, I'm gonna have fun today. Taddy, Davis
and I are going snail. Honey, Kathy, they weren't gonna
pour salt on him and watch him go squlitch.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
You kitting not at the table?
Speaker 10 (05:53):
Oh no, Daddy. Out back of the garage.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Could be quite enough that silly talk. Angel, drink your
orange juice.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yes, mommy, ell scramble eggs and sausages, and don't touch
the plate.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Jim, it's very hot.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
I'll be careful.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Go ahead, children, help yourself.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
I bet nobody knows what today is. It's Thursday, smarty pans.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
God, leave some of the sausages for somebody else.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Oh, yes, ma'am, it's the first day of summery that's
what it.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Is, June twenty first, By golly, she's right, the first
day of summer.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
What do you know?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Mathleys have the butter? Oh dear, what's the matter, honey.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
No butter, I've forgotten all about it.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Well, it isn't important.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Here's the butter.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Father, Thank you, honey. What do you mean you forgot
all about it?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I didn't mean the butter, Jim. I promise you won't
be angry, all right?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
I promise. Now what am I not to be angry about.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Well, Jim, you know about the Gray Ladies, don't you?
Speaker 7 (06:51):
You mean the Red Cross? Sure? What about?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well they've arranged a whole series of dances for wounded
veterans in Plainville.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Fine. See I didn't get angry at all.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
But I'm not finished.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh, they needed volunteers to drive men from the Veterans
hospital in Springfield over the Plaineville you know, And well
I said they could definitely have the use of our car.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
I think it's a very good idea. And Honey, I'm
surprised at you. Why should I be angry about a
worthy cause like that?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Well, the dances are going to be held on Thursday night.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
That's even better. That's my bowling night. So I won't
even need the car. Who's going to drive it?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I told them you would? Oh? Well what now, Jim,
you promise.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
You said that i'd drive the car on Thursday.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Well you said it was a worthy car.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
I've been bowling every Thursday night for five years. And
what right did you have, Margaret?
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Yes, dear, as long as you gave your word, the
Gray Ladies and the veterans will have the car. But
we'll have one of the children driving, Jim. They're more
very excellent, careful drivers, and.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
They'd love to take the veterans over the plain Bill.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I would father me too, Jim, you don't understand the
dancers won't be over until midnight. Well, by the time
they drive back from Plainville and get the men signed
in at the hospital, it'll be after two o'clock and
I will not have either one of them running around
at that time of the morning.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
No, I suppose not. But wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I don't ask you to do these things very often.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
And I certainly say I've got a great idea. Why
don't you learn how to drive?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Jim Anderson?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
If you think I'm going to learn how to drive
just so you can go and roll a silly ball
at a bunch of.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Honey, everybody ought to know how to drive a car, often,
they kids.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
You get they sure I am not going to learn.
Speaker 10 (08:38):
To drive, I'll be glad to daddy, Honey.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
There's really nothing to it.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
You'll go to a driving school, take a few lessons,
and the first thing you know, you'll be tooling along
the road like Barney Oldfield.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I am not going to drive a car, but Honey,
I'll be glad to Laddy.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Margaret. It's as much for your sake as anyone else's.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Why, if you knew how to drive, you'd be absolutely
independent of anybody.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Jim, I don't think I ought to drive a car.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
I'll be glad to Daddy.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Gosh, Mom, there isn't anything to drive in a car, Honest, there.
Speaker 11 (09:10):
Isn't once you get the hang of it. This as
easy as shooting fish with.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
A barrel in a barrel, That's what I said.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
The way they build cars today, a six year old
child can drive one.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
I'm nine.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Don't you think it over, honey.
Speaker 10 (09:26):
And I'm good to be ten.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
You won't be if you don't keep still.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
How about it, Honey? Will you give it a try?
Speaker 10 (09:37):
It'll be lots of fun.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Mother, Jim, I'm too old old Margaret, you're a mere babe.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Hi a babe bye? I mean Joe Phillips mother is
older than you are, and she drives.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
There you are, honey. If that beetles Grim if she
can drive, anybody care, I'll be glad to Daddy.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Of course, I did learn to use my washing machine.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
You see.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And how about the.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Mangle if you can steer a shirt through one of those,
you can certainly steer a car through a simple thing
like traffic.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
I never thought of it like that.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
What the steering a shirt have to do?
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Your breakfast?
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Leave?
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Holy call?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Now you can't even call?
Speaker 6 (10:27):
How about it? Mother? Will you try? Well? All right?
Got on one condition.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
You've got to teach me, Margaret.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
They've got very good schools for that, and they use
their own cars.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
It's okay. Then we can teach her, of course we can.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Father, Honey, It isn't a good idea for a man
to teach his own wife.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
But if we all pitched in there and creepers, that'd
give us something to do.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
And then I can write an article on highway safety.
Speaker 10 (10:59):
What can I do?
Speaker 7 (11:00):
You, Jim, finish your practice.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yesterday?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Now, look, honey, Jim, I think I'm being very fair
about the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
If you will try to teach me, I'll try.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
To learn, okay, And if I learn in time for
the first Veterans dance, you won't have to bother driving
them at all.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
That's fair, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
All right?
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Margaret? When is the first dance tonight?
Speaker 12 (11:25):
Well?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
When didn't I tell you?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
I could have sworn I.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Did Wait a minute, You want me to teach you
to drive a car in one day?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
What I learned to use the washing machine in one day?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Nobody It's impossible. Nobody can teach you to drive a
car in one day.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Well, maybe not an ordinary day, but you forget that
today is the twenty first of June.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Why, Jim, it's the longest day of the year.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Well, you can't blame Margaret too much for having such
faith in father's ability to teach her to drive. After all, ladies,
you do depend on the head of a house to
be an expert on so many things. For example, when
it comes to coffee, truly good coffee, your husband is
the world's greatest expert. Naturally, we're thought of as pretty
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fair experts too. More families buy our Maxwell House coffee
than any other brand. But the expert with the final word,
the one you want to please when you brew coffee,
is your husband. And tomorrow, if you'll fill his cup
with the superb, full bodied flavor of our Maxwell House coffee,
we're sure he'll smile with pleasure and say.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
That's wonderful coffee.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
In fact, we're so sure he'll say that, we'll return
your money if he doesn't. You see, we know there's
no coffee made like Maxwell House. That's why no coffee
tastes like Maxwell House. It's the only coffee with that
famous good to the last drop flavor, because only Maxwell
House has the recipe, and that's a very special recipe,
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demanding choice, extra flavor coffees blended and roasted just so.
Get Maxwell House coffee tomorrow and start serving it to
your husband. And if he doesn't say best coffee ever,
why send us the can an unused portion, and we'll
gladly refund your money. Our address is right on every
familiar blue tin. Yes, tomorrow, find out how much the
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world's greatest coffee expert your husband enjoys Maxwell House coffee,
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Count that day, Who's low descending?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Son duels from my hand? No worthy action done well?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
The sun is neither low nor descending, So a lot
of time remains for Jim Anderson to do his good
need for the day. Strangely though, it isn't.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Working out quite the way he had.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Planned like this.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
I never said we were all going to teach your
mother to drive my.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Father, and if the children want to come along, I'm
going to be tough enough teaching you to drive without
having a backseat full of assistance.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
I won't say anything, Daddy, Gosh, Dad, if you're on,
father and help you learn about highway safety.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
God, I don't care if you do win the prize,
you may not go tootling around the streets.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
And a gasoline scooter? Is that understood?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Even if I buy my own gasoline.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Even if you come up with your own oil. Well, oh,
let's not discuss it any further.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Dear.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
We've already wasted a half hour. And if I'm going
to learn today.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Honny, this whole thing is ridiculous, right, Jim, you can't
take one lesson and then show for a bunch of
wounded vets.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Don't you think they've gone through enough.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You might not believe this, Jim, but my grandmother William
said that I learned how to use a sewing machine
faster than anyone she's ever known.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Honey, people don't just get into a car and drive,
no matter how.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Brilliantly they can use a sewing machine.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
Maybe she's a mechanical genius.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Father, Oh, sure, I might be.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
They've got a second prize too.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
Mommy looks like she knows how to drive.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
What if I just try to win the second pies?
But that wouldn't be.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Bad in what is the second prize?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Uh, that's the gasoline scooter too.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Oh, give me strength, father.
Speaker 10 (15:44):
If you don't let us come along, we won't have
anything to do.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Well, we're not going anywhere. We're just going to drive
up and down Maple Street.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
Oh what are we waiting for, Kathy?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
She's absolutely right there. The sooner we get started, the
sooner we'll be finished.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
Golly, this is gonna be fun.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
What do I do first? Jim?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Well, this part is comparatively simple. You get in.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Oh and on the other side, Honey, you're going to drive, remember, of.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Course, how silly of me.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
It just isn't DeLux, that's all. What isn't the second five?
Speaker 12 (16:21):
Un?
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Why don't you keep still?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I've got as much right to talk as you have.
Speaker 10 (16:26):
Can't we take a ride in the country, daddy?
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Everybody else said Daddy.
Speaker 10 (16:31):
Davis's father took her for ride in the country. And
I want to see the wildflowers too.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I'll be glad to see Maple Street again. All right, honey,
let's go where, dear start the motor?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
How do I do that?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Margaret?
Speaker 8 (16:46):
You've been sitting next to me for eighteen years and
you mean to say you don't even know how to
start the motor?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Well, I had so much confidence in you, dear, I
guess I never noticed.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
This is going to be fine.
Speaker 10 (16:58):
Father, Why don't.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
You teach you how to shift gears?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
First, Betty? If you don't mind, I'll handle this in
my own way.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I was just trying to get hell, it's the same
as the other one, but it doesn't have so much
chrome on it.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
But yes, sir, keep.
Speaker 13 (17:17):
Still, yes, sir, me too, Daddy, Yes you too, yes, daddy.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Now, if no one has any objections, I'll teach your
mother how to shift gears.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Good, Margaret, Yes, dear.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
The first thing you do is push down the clutch.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Oh, which one is that?
Speaker 7 (17:36):
And it's not on the dashboard, it's on the floor.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
And I push it down.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
That's right with your left foot?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Why my left foot, because your right foot is busy
with the accelerator.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
When do I do that?
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Margaret? If you'll only listen.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
I'm sorry, dear, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Push the clutch down with your left foot. Yes, Now
raise the shift lever up and then pull it down.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Out Jim, you're joking.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
I'm not joking.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
But if I lift it up and then pull it down,
it's right where it was in the beginning.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Margaret. You lift it up like this, yes, Then you
pull it towards you.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Oh, then you take your foot off the clutchty.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Now it's in first.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
If you started the second, Dad, you get a quicker getaway.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Wait a minute, you.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Start this car in second.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Well, the fellas don't say that. It doesn't hurt anything.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
But if I ever find you starting this car in second,
so help me, you'll never drive it again.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Well I was only I mean only you, and you're big.
Now I'm not hurting you, any am.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I keep quiet back there, all of you.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
I didn't say anything, Daddy.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Got I think very quiet. I know.
Speaker 13 (19:02):
Now the next time you practically five minutes, Kathy, will
you please keep still? Yes, Daddy, yes, year to shift
from low to second?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
How do I get it in low?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Thin?
Speaker 12 (19:15):
Low?
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I thought that was first?
Speaker 7 (19:17):
It is first, Jim.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Really you're the same thing.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Mother.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Oh whoa, it's certainly a nice thing to.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Know, Honey. Push the clutch down again. Yeah, the other one, Margaret,
that's the brake.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
But I'm pushing it with my left foot.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
It's still a break and you're supposed to push that
with your right foot.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Well, if you're going to make everything so complicated.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
I'm not making it complicated. Just push down the clutch
with your left foot.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Jim. You needn't raise your voice. I can hear you.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
I'm sorry, honey. Please push down.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
The clutch all right, you're there.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Now, push the shift lever straight up as far as
it will go, and release the clutch again like that.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
That wasn't hard at all, was it. Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:09):
No, it's fine.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Now do you mean there's more?
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Push the clutch in again.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Jim, you're making this all up. Well, it certainly sounds
silly to me.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Margaret.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
You push the clutch in, yeah, and you pull the
ship lever straight down like.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
That's what I did before.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
No, Honey, this time, you don't lift it up before
you pull it down.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I just pull it down right there.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Now, release the clutch and you're in high.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Now what do I do?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
That's it? All you have to do now is steer.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Well, it's really very simple, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Yes, dear, it's very simple.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Now, let's all go back into the house.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
And honey, we've only.
Speaker 12 (20:57):
Just been gone.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
You said all I.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Had to do was steer, and I certainly know how
to do that, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Just to humor me, let's try doing it once with
the motor running.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
All right, Jim, but it seems like an awful waste
of time.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Turn on the ignition the what the key? Turn it on?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
If you meant the key, you should have said the key.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Oh wait a minute, I'll put it back in neutral.
All right, step on a daughter?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
With which foot?
Speaker 7 (21:26):
It's that little button on the dashboard.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I've never seen you step on it?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Expression you push it with your finger?
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Which one?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Anyone?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I just wanted to know, ahead, honey, all right, dear,
this is getting easier.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
All the time.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Now put it in first.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
All right, dear, that's right there. Why isn't it moving?
Speaker 8 (22:15):
You have to let the clutch out, push down on
the gas pedal with your right foot and take your
left foot off the clutch like this.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Now we're going.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Are your kids all right back there?
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Yes, daddy, we're all right.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
Father.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I think I swallowed my teeth.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
You're supposed to let the clutch out slowly.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Please don't bother me, Dear.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
I'm busy steering all right, but you have to put
it in a second.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
That's straight up, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Yes, But don't.
Speaker 12 (22:48):
Forget the clutch, Dear.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Why can I ever remember?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Swow?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
There we are now?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
What put it in? High?
Speaker 12 (23:05):
And I know?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Dear? The cut?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Oh my aching back, Jim.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I think you ought to have this car fixed. It
makes just as much noise either way.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
You've got to practice, Margaret. You can't learn it all
in one minute.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
I suppose nothing. I think I steer very well, don't you.
Speaker 12 (23:28):
Mom.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
You're supposed to be on the other side of the street.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I'll go over there presently, Margaret.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Yeah, I think you'd better forget about driving the car tonight.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Oh, Jim, I think I'm doing very well.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
She hasn't had anything yet.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Father. Oh that's a great consolation, Honey. Pull over to
the curb and we'll try it again.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
All right? How do I stop it?
Speaker 8 (23:56):
You use the brake the thing you were stepping on before,
the right foot.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
What do I do with the left foot?
Speaker 8 (24:03):
You leave it where it is, step on the brake
with your right foot and put your left hand out
the window.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Jin I can see from here.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
It isn't raining, Honey.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
You're supposed to signal to the cars in back that
you're coming to a stop.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
If they can't see that a big thing like the
back of the car is stopping, how can they see
my hand?
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Betty? What was it you said about a mechanical genius?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
I'm sorry, father, I take the whole thing back.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Oh have I got an angle on highway safety?
Speaker 7 (24:38):
You mean from this? You bet?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
When my mother is driving, everybody's seeing the hollows.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
But really, never mind, honey, you'll get it someday. Now
let's stop, shall we.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
That's the right foot. Yes, I don't see any reason.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Poot on the brake.
Speaker 12 (25:00):
All of you.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Oh Margaret?
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Why what's that ever? Cross?
Speaker 10 (25:19):
Ranny?
Speaker 12 (25:20):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Kitten?
Speaker 10 (25:21):
How do you start to There isn't any.
Speaker 12 (25:23):
Tree, you know, ladies.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
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Speaker 7 (26:23):
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always good to the last drop. A little knowledge is
a dangerous thing, that's what they say. Of course, I
don't know exactly who said it, but I'm sure somebody did.
And if they didn't, I'm going to a little knowledge
is a dangerous thing like this.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
It's sure nice of you Gray ladies to do this
for us, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Oh, it isn't anything, really.
Speaker 14 (27:11):
Well, it isn't everybody who'd give up a whole evening
just to drive a bunch of vets over the Plainville.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
We're very happy to do it, aren't we, Dear, Yes,
we're very happy.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
There's a car coming out of that driveway.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Jim Margaret. For eighteen years you sat there and you
didn't say a word.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Now all of a sudden, did you.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
See that he didn't even put his hand up.
Speaker 14 (27:34):
Yes, sir, people got their own things to do, like
playing cards or bowling, stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Jim, we're coming to a signal.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Honey, for the love of people, don't forget to.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Put your hand out for the stop.
Speaker 14 (27:46):
Oh why, I can remember months when nobody even came
near to the hospital.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Don't get too close to the white line.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
Oh, I don't mean we didn't have anything to do
or anything like that.
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Speaker 4 (28:46):
Join us again next week when we'll be back with
Father Knows Betts, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson, with
Roy Bargie and the Maxwell House Orchestra.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
In our cast where.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Roda Williams and Betty June Whitleigh ted Donaldson, Norman G. Nilson,
Ben Weldon, and yours True bill Form. We've just had
a lot of fun about how not to drive a car,
but I'm sure we all know that driving an automobile
is a serious responsibility. So let's be especially careful on
our streets and highways this summer. Now until next Thursday,
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good night and good luck from the makers of Maxwell House,
America's favorite brand of coffee.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Always Good to.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
The last drop, Father Knows Best, was transcribed in Hollywood
and written by Ed James. Now stay tuned for Dragnet,
which follows immediately over most of these stations.
Speaker 15 (29:44):
Dragnet, The Story of Your Police Force, is next on
NBC
Mother, Is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
World when your father says so and your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young as father. A half
hour visit with your neighbor's the Andersons, brought to you
by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always
good to the last drop. It's morning in Springfield, the
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morning of June twenty first, and a day long to
be remembered in the minds and memories of the family
known as Anderson. As with most things that occur in
the white frame house on Maple Street, the situation is
approached by way of Hindustan and the East Side, Bury
and Archipelago, but in the Anderson household, June twenty first
will always be remembered as the day we taught mother
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to drive like this.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Good morning, Margaret, Good morning, dear.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Why did you look chipper this morning?
Speaker 7 (01:17):
Why shouldn't I? I'm young, handsome, talented, and you you
lucky woman. You've got me.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Jim Anderson, did you put something in your mouthwash today?
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Nothing can phaze me.
Speaker 8 (01:30):
I'll climb out, swim oceans, scale the sides of mighty precipices.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Jim, please put me down, trying to say pre gm Jim,
You've got to put me.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
Down, will not?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
That's coming?
Speaker 8 (01:43):
Well, let him get his own women, honey, you know
how you can get down?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Oh, dear, you're going to be a spoiled baby.
Speaker 9 (01:53):
Hi a mom, Hi a daan kissing mom hadm Well,
you sure got a nice day.
Speaker 8 (02:04):
For it, Margaret, Yes, dear, Now please have my coffee.
Of course, you keep quiet and eat your breakfast.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Not what did I do?
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Nothing? Just eat your breakfast.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
There you are, dear, nice hot coffee.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
The girls have to be down any minute. I better
get started with the egg.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
Okay, honey, you sure got a nice day for it.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Dead But I just finished telling you.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
But I have to ask you something.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
If it's about a gasoline scooter, the answer is still no.
Speaker 9 (02:38):
Well, it isn't exactly about a gasoline scooter.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
It's about highway safety.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Oh what about it?
Speaker 9 (02:45):
Well, if you have to talk about it or anything,
what's a good thing to say?
Speaker 8 (02:50):
Well, there are all sorts of things to be said
about the Highway Safety program. It outlines a common sense
method of preventing accidents and saving lives.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
It promotes.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
Why are you suddenly interested in the highway safety movement?
Why not that I have any objections? Of course, I
think it's a very good idea. I just want to
know why. Well, they're having a sort of a contest,
sort of about highway safety.
Speaker 9 (03:15):
You have to write three hundred words on what highway
safety means to me in my community.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
And if you will, you get a prize.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
You are going to write three hundred words without a
gun at the back of your head.
Speaker 9 (03:28):
Well, I mean, highway safety is something everybody's in favor of,
and like you said, it helps to save lives and
make the road safe for democracy.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
And but what's the prize?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
The prize?
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Why are they giving away a gasoline scooter?
Speaker 9 (03:49):
I see, But I wasn't even thinking about.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
That, Dan, I'll bet you weren't.
Speaker 9 (03:54):
I was thinking of the good I can do for
my fellow citizens and the prosperity, sterity you bit.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
And if I can do things like that, well, gosh.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Please pass the cream and sugar.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
I'd sort of be killing two birds with one gasoline scooter.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
That's what I'm afraid of now, man, Please have the
cream and sugar, Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
Good morning, mother, Good morning father.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Hi, good morning, hid.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Drink your orange juice, Betty. I'll have some scrambled eggs
ready in a minute. Okay, shove over, Bud.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Why can't you sit on the other side?
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Go ahead, Bud, move over and stop arguing.
Speaker 10 (04:31):
What a day?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
What's the matter with you this morning?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (04:35):
That Janie Liggett.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
What a friend she turned out to be.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
Yesterday I sat over there and she still made me
shove over.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
What's the matter with Janieliggott?
Speaker 11 (04:46):
You can't count on her for anything. We were gonna
wash our hair together today and she can't do it
just because her aunt's in town.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
What an excuse.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
It's no oneder my pants wear out. All I do
is shove over.
Speaker 11 (05:05):
Now, I've got nothing to do all day, but absolutely nothing.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
Well, suppose you pass the toast. That'll take up some
of your loose times.
Speaker 10 (05:14):
Father, It isn't funny.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Here's the toast.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 11 (05:19):
How would you like to have a day staring you
in the face and have absolutely nothing to do?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Heck, it's only about two pages.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
What is three hundred words? I figured it out. Oh
we're back on that again.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Fury everybody. Golliam, I'm gonna have fun today. Taddy, Davis
and I are going snail. Honey, Kathy, they weren't gonna
pour salt on him and watch him go squlitch.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
You kitting not at the table?
Speaker 10 (05:53):
Oh no, Daddy. Out back of the garage.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Could be quite enough that silly talk. Angel, drink your
orange juice.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yes, mommy, ell scramble eggs and sausages, and don't touch
the plate.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Jim, it's very hot.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
I'll be careful.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Go ahead, children, help yourself.
Speaker 11 (06:09):
I bet nobody knows what today is. It's Thursday, smarty pans.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
God, leave some of the sausages for somebody else.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Oh, yes, ma'am, it's the first day of summery that's
what it.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Is, June twenty first, By golly, she's right, the first
day of summer.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
What do you know?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Mathleys have the butter? Oh dear, what's the matter, honey.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
No butter, I've forgotten all about it.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Well, it isn't important.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Here's the butter.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Father, Thank you, honey. What do you mean you forgot
all about it?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I didn't mean the butter, Jim. I promise you won't
be angry, all right?
Speaker 7 (06:44):
I promise. Now what am I not to be angry about.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Well, Jim, you know about the Gray Ladies, don't you?
Speaker 7 (06:51):
You mean the Red Cross? Sure? What about?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well they've arranged a whole series of dances for wounded
veterans in Plainville.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Fine. See I didn't get angry at all.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
But I'm not finished.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh, they needed volunteers to drive men from the Veterans
hospital in Springfield over the Plaineville you know, And well
I said they could definitely have the use of our car.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
I think it's a very good idea. And Honey, I'm
surprised at you. Why should I be angry about a
worthy cause like that?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Well, the dances are going to be held on Thursday night.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
That's even better. That's my bowling night. So I won't
even need the car. Who's going to drive it?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I told them you would? Oh? Well what now, Jim,
you promise.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
You said that i'd drive the car on Thursday.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Well you said it was a worthy car.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
I've been bowling every Thursday night for five years. And
what right did you have, Margaret?
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Yes, dear, as long as you gave your word, the
Gray Ladies and the veterans will have the car. But
we'll have one of the children driving, Jim. They're more
very excellent, careful drivers, and.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
They'd love to take the veterans over the plain Bill.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I would father me too, Jim, you don't understand the
dancers won't be over until midnight. Well, by the time
they drive back from Plainville and get the men signed
in at the hospital, it'll be after two o'clock and
I will not have either one of them running around
at that time of the morning.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
No, I suppose not. But wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I don't ask you to do these things very often.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
And I certainly say I've got a great idea. Why
don't you learn how to drive?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Jim Anderson?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
If you think I'm going to learn how to drive
just so you can go and roll a silly ball
at a bunch of.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Honey, everybody ought to know how to drive a car, often,
they kids.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
You get they sure I am not going to learn.
Speaker 10 (08:38):
To drive, I'll be glad to daddy, Honey.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
There's really nothing to it.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
You'll go to a driving school, take a few lessons,
and the first thing you know, you'll be tooling along
the road like Barney Oldfield.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I am not going to drive a car, but Honey,
I'll be glad to Laddy.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Margaret. It's as much for your sake as anyone else's.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Why, if you knew how to drive, you'd be absolutely
independent of anybody.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Jim, I don't think I ought to drive a car.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
I'll be glad to Daddy.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
Gosh, Mom, there isn't anything to drive in a car, Honest, there.
Speaker 11 (09:10):
Isn't once you get the hang of it. This as
easy as shooting fish with.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
A barrel in a barrel, That's what I said.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
The way they build cars today, a six year old
child can drive one.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
I'm nine.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
Don't you think it over, honey.
Speaker 10 (09:26):
And I'm good to be ten.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
You won't be if you don't keep still.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
How about it, Honey? Will you give it a try?
Speaker 10 (09:37):
It'll be lots of fun.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Mother, Jim, I'm too old old Margaret, you're a mere babe.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Hi a babe bye? I mean Joe Phillips mother is
older than you are, and she drives.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
There you are, honey. If that beetles Grim if she
can drive, anybody care, I'll be glad to Daddy.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Of course, I did learn to use my washing machine.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
You see.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And how about the.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Mangle if you can steer a shirt through one of those,
you can certainly steer a car through a simple thing
like traffic.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
I never thought of it like that.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
What the steering a shirt have to do?
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Your breakfast?
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Leave?
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Holy call?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Now you can't even call?
Speaker 6 (10:27):
How about it? Mother? Will you try? Well? All right?
Got on one condition.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
You've got to teach me, Margaret.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
They've got very good schools for that, and they use
their own cars.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
It's okay. Then we can teach her, of course we can.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Father, Honey, It isn't a good idea for a man
to teach his own wife.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
But if we all pitched in there and creepers, that'd
give us something to do.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
And then I can write an article on highway safety.
Speaker 10 (10:59):
What can I do?
Speaker 7 (11:00):
You, Jim, finish your practice.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yesterday?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Now, look, honey, Jim, I think I'm being very fair
about the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
If you will try to teach me, I'll try.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
To learn, okay, And if I learn in time for
the first Veterans dance, you won't have to bother driving
them at all.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
That's fair, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
All right?
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Margaret? When is the first dance tonight?
Speaker 12 (11:25):
Well?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
When didn't I tell you?
Speaker 6 (11:30):
I could have sworn I.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Did Wait a minute, You want me to teach you
to drive a car in one day?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
What I learned to use the washing machine in one day?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Nobody It's impossible. Nobody can teach you to drive a
car in one day.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Well, maybe not an ordinary day, but you forget that
today is the twenty first of June.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Why, Jim, it's the longest day of the year.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Well, you can't blame Margaret too much for having such
faith in father's ability to teach her to drive. After all, ladies,
you do depend on the head of a house to
be an expert on so many things. For example, when
it comes to coffee, truly good coffee, your husband is
the world's greatest expert. Naturally, we're thought of as pretty
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fair experts too. More families buy our Maxwell House coffee
than any other brand. But the expert with the final word,
the one you want to please when you brew coffee,
is your husband. And tomorrow, if you'll fill his cup
with the superb, full bodied flavor of our Maxwell House coffee,
we're sure he'll smile with pleasure and say.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
That's wonderful coffee.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
In fact, we're so sure he'll say that, we'll return
your money if he doesn't. You see, we know there's
no coffee made like Maxwell House. That's why no coffee
tastes like Maxwell House. It's the only coffee with that
famous good to the last drop flavor, because only Maxwell
House has the recipe, and that's a very special recipe,
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demanding choice, extra flavor coffees blended and roasted just so.
Get Maxwell House coffee tomorrow and start serving it to
your husband. And if he doesn't say best coffee ever,
why send us the can an unused portion, and we'll
gladly refund your money. Our address is right on every
familiar blue tin. Yes, tomorrow, find out how much the
(13:42):
world's greatest coffee expert your husband enjoys Maxwell House coffee,
always good to the last drop.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Count that day, Who's low descending?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Son duels from my hand? No worthy action done well?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
The sun is neither low nor descending, So a lot
of time remains for Jim Anderson to do his good
need for the day. Strangely though, it isn't.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Working out quite the way he had.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Planned like this.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
I never said we were all going to teach your
mother to drive my.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Father, and if the children want to come along, I'm
going to be tough enough teaching you to drive without
having a backseat full of assistance.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
I won't say anything, Daddy, Gosh, Dad, if you're on,
father and help you learn about highway safety.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
God, I don't care if you do win the prize,
you may not go tootling around the streets.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
And a gasoline scooter? Is that understood?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Even if I buy my own gasoline.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Even if you come up with your own oil. Well, oh,
let's not discuss it any further.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Dear.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
We've already wasted a half hour. And if I'm going
to learn today.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
Honny, this whole thing is ridiculous, right, Jim, you can't
take one lesson and then show for a bunch of
wounded vets.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Don't you think they've gone through enough.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You might not believe this, Jim, but my grandmother William
said that I learned how to use a sewing machine
faster than anyone she's ever known.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
Honey, people don't just get into a car and drive,
no matter how.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
Brilliantly they can use a sewing machine.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
Maybe she's a mechanical genius.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Father, Oh, sure, I might be.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
They've got a second prize too.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
Mommy looks like she knows how to drive.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
What if I just try to win the second pies?
But that wouldn't be.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Bad in what is the second prize?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
Uh, that's the gasoline scooter too.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Oh, give me strength, father.
Speaker 10 (15:44):
If you don't let us come along, we won't have
anything to do.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Well, we're not going anywhere. We're just going to drive
up and down Maple Street.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
Oh what are we waiting for, Kathy?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
She's absolutely right there. The sooner we get started, the
sooner we'll be finished.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
All right, let's go.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
Golly, this is gonna be fun.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
What do I do first? Jim?
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Well, this part is comparatively simple. You get in.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Oh and on the other side, Honey, you're going to drive, remember, of.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Course, how silly of me.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
It just isn't DeLux, that's all. What isn't the second five?
Speaker 12 (16:21):
Un?
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Why don't you keep still?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I've got as much right to talk as you have.
Speaker 10 (16:26):
Can't we take a ride in the country, daddy?
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Everybody else said Daddy.
Speaker 10 (16:31):
Davis's father took her for ride in the country. And
I want to see the wildflowers too.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I'll be glad to see Maple Street again. All right, honey,
let's go where, dear start the motor?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
How do I do that?
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Margaret?
Speaker 8 (16:46):
You've been sitting next to me for eighteen years and
you mean to say you don't even know how to
start the motor?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Well, I had so much confidence in you, dear, I
guess I never noticed.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
This is going to be fine.
Speaker 10 (16:58):
Father, Why don't.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
You teach you how to shift gears?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
First, Betty? If you don't mind, I'll handle this in
my own way.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I was just trying to get hell, it's the same
as the other one, but it doesn't have so much
chrome on it.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
But yes, sir, keep.
Speaker 13 (17:17):
Still, yes, sir, me too, Daddy, Yes you too, yes, daddy.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Now, if no one has any objections, I'll teach your
mother how to shift gears.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Good, Margaret, Yes, dear.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
The first thing you do is push down the clutch.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Oh, which one is that?
Speaker 7 (17:36):
And it's not on the dashboard, it's on the floor.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
And I push it down.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
That's right with your left foot?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Why my left foot, because your right foot is busy
with the accelerator.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
When do I do that?
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Margaret? If you'll only listen.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
I'm sorry, dear, go ahead.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Push the clutch down with your left foot. Yes, Now
raise the shift lever up and then pull it down.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Out Jim, you're joking.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
I'm not joking.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
But if I lift it up and then pull it down,
it's right where it was in the beginning.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Margaret. You lift it up like this, yes, Then you
pull it towards you.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Oh, then you take your foot off the clutchty.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Now it's in first.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
If you started the second, Dad, you get a quicker getaway.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Wait a minute, you.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Start this car in second.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Well, the fellas don't say that. It doesn't hurt anything.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
But if I ever find you starting this car in second,
so help me, you'll never drive it again.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Well I was only I mean only you, and you're big.
Now I'm not hurting you, any am.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I keep quiet back there, all of you.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
I didn't say anything, Daddy.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Got I think very quiet. I know.
Speaker 13 (19:02):
Now the next time you practically five minutes, Kathy, will
you please keep still? Yes, Daddy, yes, year to shift
from low to second?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
How do I get it in low?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Thin?
Speaker 12 (19:15):
Low?
Speaker 6 (19:16):
I thought that was first?
Speaker 7 (19:17):
It is first, Jim.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Really you're the same thing.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Mother.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Oh whoa, it's certainly a nice thing to.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
Know, Honey. Push the clutch down again. Yeah, the other one, Margaret,
that's the brake.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
But I'm pushing it with my left foot.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
It's still a break and you're supposed to push that
with your right foot.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Well, if you're going to make everything so complicated.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
I'm not making it complicated. Just push down the clutch
with your left foot.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Jim. You needn't raise your voice. I can hear you.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
I'm sorry, honey. Please push down.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
The clutch all right, you're there.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Now, push the shift lever straight up as far as
it will go, and release the clutch again like that.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
That wasn't hard at all, was it. Oh?
Speaker 7 (20:09):
No, it's fine.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Now do you mean there's more?
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Push the clutch in again.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Jim, you're making this all up. Well, it certainly sounds
silly to me.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Margaret.
Speaker 8 (20:23):
You push the clutch in, yeah, and you pull the
ship lever straight down like.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
That's what I did before.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
No, Honey, this time, you don't lift it up before
you pull it down.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I just pull it down right there.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Now, release the clutch and you're in high.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Now what do I do?
Speaker 7 (20:45):
That's it? All you have to do now is steer.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Well, it's really very simple, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
Yes, dear, it's very simple.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Now, let's all go back into the house.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
And honey, we've only.
Speaker 12 (20:57):
Just been gone.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
You said all I.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Had to do was steer, and I certainly know how
to do that, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
Just to humor me, let's try doing it once with
the motor running.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
All right, Jim, but it seems like an awful waste
of time.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Turn on the ignition the what the key? Turn it on?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
If you meant the key, you should have said the key.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Oh wait a minute, I'll put it back in neutral.
All right, step on a daughter?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
With which foot?
Speaker 7 (21:26):
It's that little button on the dashboard.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I've never seen you step on it?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Expression you push it with your finger?
Speaker 10 (21:41):
Which one?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Anyone?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I just wanted to know, ahead, honey, all right, dear,
this is getting easier.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
All the time.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Now put it in first.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
All right, dear, that's right there. Why isn't it moving?
Speaker 8 (22:15):
You have to let the clutch out, push down on
the gas pedal with your right foot and take your
left foot off the clutch like this.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Now we're going.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Are your kids all right back there?
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Yes, daddy, we're all right.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
Father.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I think I swallowed my teeth.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
You're supposed to let the clutch out slowly.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Please don't bother me, Dear.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
I'm busy steering all right, but you have to put
it in a second.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
That's straight up, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Yes, But don't.
Speaker 12 (22:48):
Forget the clutch, Dear.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Why can I ever remember?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Swow?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
There we are now?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
What put it in? High?
Speaker 12 (23:05):
And I know?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Dear? The cut?
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Oh my aching back, Jim.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I think you ought to have this car fixed. It
makes just as much noise either way.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
You've got to practice, Margaret. You can't learn it all
in one minute.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
I suppose nothing. I think I steer very well, don't you.
Speaker 12 (23:28):
Mom.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
You're supposed to be on the other side of the street.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I'll go over there presently, Margaret.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Yeah, I think you'd better forget about driving the car tonight.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Oh, Jim, I think I'm doing very well.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
She hasn't had anything yet.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Father. Oh that's a great consolation, Honey. Pull over to
the curb and we'll try it again.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
All right? How do I stop it?
Speaker 8 (23:56):
You use the brake the thing you were stepping on before,
the right foot.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
What do I do with the left foot?
Speaker 8 (24:03):
You leave it where it is, step on the brake
with your right foot and put your left hand out
the window.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Jin I can see from here.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
It isn't raining, Honey.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
You're supposed to signal to the cars in back that
you're coming to a stop.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
If they can't see that a big thing like the
back of the car is stopping, how can they see
my hand?
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Betty? What was it you said about a mechanical genius?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
I'm sorry, father, I take the whole thing back.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
Oh have I got an angle on highway safety?
Speaker 7 (24:38):
You mean from this? You bet?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
When my mother is driving, everybody's seeing the hollows.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
But really, never mind, honey, you'll get it someday. Now
let's stop, shall we.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
That's the right foot. Yes, I don't see any reason.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Poot on the brake.
Speaker 12 (25:00):
All of you.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Oh Margaret?
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Why what's that ever? Cross?
Speaker 10 (25:19):
Ranny?
Speaker 12 (25:20):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Kitten?
Speaker 10 (25:21):
How do you start to There isn't any.
Speaker 12 (25:23):
Tree, you know, ladies.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
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always good to the last drop. A little knowledge is
a dangerous thing, that's what they say. Of course, I
don't know exactly who said it, but I'm sure somebody did.
And if they didn't, I'm going to a little knowledge
is a dangerous thing like this.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
It's sure nice of you Gray ladies to do this
for us, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Oh, it isn't anything, really.
Speaker 14 (27:11):
Well, it isn't everybody who'd give up a whole evening
just to drive a bunch of vets over the Plainville.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
We're very happy to do it, aren't we, Dear, Yes,
we're very happy.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
There's a car coming out of that driveway.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Jim Margaret. For eighteen years you sat there and you
didn't say a word.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Now all of a sudden, did you.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
See that he didn't even put his hand up.
Speaker 14 (27:34):
Yes, sir, people got their own things to do, like
playing cards or bowling, stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Jim, we're coming to a signal.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Honey, for the love of people, don't forget to.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Put your hand out for the stop.
Speaker 14 (27:46):
Oh why, I can remember months when nobody even came
near to the hospital.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Don't get too close to the white line.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
Oh, I don't mean we didn't have anything to do
or anything like that.
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Speaker 3 (28:28):
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Speaker 4 (28:46):
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Speaker 3 (28:53):
In our cast where.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Roda Williams and Betty June Whitleigh ted Donaldson, Norman G. Nilson,
Ben Weldon, and yours True bill Form. We've just had
a lot of fun about how not to drive a car,
but I'm sure we all know that driving an automobile
is a serious responsibility. So let's be especially careful on
our streets and highways this summer. Now until next Thursday,
(29:14):
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America's favorite brand of coffee.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Always Good to.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
The last drop, Father Knows Best, was transcribed in Hollywood
and written by Ed James. Now stay tuned for Dragnet,
which follows immediately over most of these stations.
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